Once again, York is the chosen destination for this weekend's "Cathedrals Express", as Steam Dreams returns to the minster city with their flagship excusion. After a highly successful visit to "Locomotion", the National Railway Museum's outpost in Shildon, Tornado has returned to London to haul trains on the mainline.
The revised timings for ‘The Cathedrals Express’ on Saturday 8th May 2010 are:
London King’s Cross: d 0918hrs
Potters Bar: a 0942hrs; d 0944hrs
Stevenage: a 1003hrs; d 1005hrs
Peterborough:a 1101hrs; d 1103hrs
Grantham: a 1144hrs; d 1207hrs
Newark Northgate: 1224hrs
Retford: 1238hrs
Doncaster: 1255hrs
York: 1340hrs
York: 1736hrs
Doncaster: 1807hrs
Retford: 1832hrs
Newark Northgate: 1849hrs
Grantham: 1903hrs
Peterborough Yard: a 1939hrs; d 19:54hrs
Peterborough: a 1958hrs; d 2000hrs
Stevenage: a 2055hrs; d 2057hrs
Potters Bar: a 2117hrs; d 2119hrs
London King’s Cross: a 2140hrs
Mark Allatt, chairman of The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, commented:
“After a busy couple of months away, it will be good to take Tornado from London to York again with ‘The Cathedrals Express’ on the route that she was designed for. Tornado is performing very well and the Trust is working hard to pay off the remaining £500,000 of the loans taken out to complete the locomotive and to raise the £100,000 needed to provide Tornado with her own support vehicle. Please visit our website at www.a1steam.com to find out how you can help to keep this remarkable locomotive on the main line where she belongs.”
The Trust respectfully requests that anyone wanting to see Tornado's main line passenger trains follows the rules of the railway and only goes where permitted.